Bob Petruska, author of Gemba Walks for Service Excellence: The Step-by-Step Guide for Identifying Service Delighters discussed what he learned (part 2 of 2) about Sur-Seal Corporation after listening to the podcast (part 1of 1) with Mick Wilz, Director of Enterprise Excellence and Co-Owner of Sur-Seal.
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I asked Bob Petruska during the podcast, I know you do a lot of strength-based work, how is that applied in Sur-Seal? Where are the strength-based points that you saw in what Mick said?
Bob Replied: I look at pretty much everything that Mick does is strength-based. He’s not focusing on the deficit. He’s focusing on a future, a positive future that people can change. By allowing people to make decisions on the floor, on the battlefield so to speak, he’s allowing people to learn. Too often in organizations we don’t let people make decisions. We say you know what, we’re the boss. We’re going to make all the decisions. But then guess what; you own the outcomes whereas I think what Mick is doing are something slightly different. He’s saying, “I don’t know all the answers. Why don’t you tell us what it is that we need to do?”
As I’ve talked to him and as I’ve learned from him, and you can watch the video on his website sur-seal.com. You can watch the people that work at Mick’s factory, and they’ll tell it to you in their own words. It’s just amazing to watch because there’s such a pride. There’s one gal there that says, “I was part of that.” They’re just so proud of the fact that they got to work on the future. And the model, the Legos model, is a brilliant way to allow people to have the time to absorb it and for them to buy into the whole idea of the change and use it in a way that speaks to their strengths.
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